30 years ago, the world was a very different place. The U.S. was being run by former movie actor Ronald Reagan, Platoon won the Best Picture Oscar, The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, Canada introduces a one-dollar coin, nicknamed the “Loonie”, and how could we forget the first Starbucks Coffee stores outside Seattle are opened in Vancouver and Chicago.
Below are 40 records (I was going to do just 30 but I couldn’t stop) from various artists and bands that turn 30 years old …..don’t mind me as I reach for my walker and feel just a little bit older.

23. Men Without Hats – ‘Pop Goes The World’Released June 29, 1987
Produced by Zeus B. Held Band Members on this album:
Ivan Doroschuk
Johnny (Stefan Doroschuk)
Jenny (Marika Tjelios)
J. Bonhomme (Richard Samson)
A Baby

24. The Replacements – ‘Pleased to Meet Me’Released on June 17, 1987
Produced by Jim DickinsonBand members on this album:
Paul Westerberg
Tommy Stinson
Chris Mars

35. Pixies – ‘Come on Pilgrim’
Released on September 28, 1987
Band Members:
Black Francis, Kim Deal, David Lovering and Joey Santiago

36. Depeche Mode – ‘Music for the Masses’
Released on September 28, 1987
Produced by Depeche Mode, David Bascombe and Daniel Miller
Band Members:
Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher and Alan Wilder

37. The Smiths – ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’Produced by Johnny Marr, Morrissey and Stephen Street
Released on September 28, 1987
This was The Smiths final studio album
Band Members:
Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke

38. The Housemartins – ‘The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death’Released September 1987

39.George Michael – ‘Faith’Released on October 30, 1987Produced by George Michael
R.I.P. #George